Alexander Reisz

Alexander was born in Paris at a very young age. He nearly flunked high school after spending days and nights playing chess, running after girls, and reading plays by Alfred de Musset, Oscar Wilde and the entire poetry works of Charles Baudelaire, which gave him a very French sense of superiority over his less intellectually endowed friends (the two of them, that is). After being told many times by several people that they were rather worried about his future, he embarked for Australia where he studied ethnology and agricultural biology at Woolagong University and wrote his dissertation on “Enhancing Ear Length of Genetically Modified Pink-Nosed Bunnies in New South Wales: an Empirical Approach” (later published in the Journal of Irreproducible Results). However, a few years struggling as a barista at Starbucks, dog groomer, and florist led to his refocusing his skills to mathematical finance (as a child, Alexander had developed an early affinity with numbers; his parents realized very quickly that only larger bank notes were missing from their wallets).

Alexander conducts bank examinations, trying to cut through the massive pseudo-intellectualized, elaborately contextualized, creatively dogmatized, heroically self-righteous bending over backwards that passes these days as financial engineering. He compensates by lifting heavy things and by singing opera, sometimes doing both at the same time. There have been unconfirmed reports of popular protest whenever and wherever he does this.

Lists of his bêtes noires, allegations of undergraduate cheating and extra-marital affairs - the most pertinent information according to reality TV, political campaigns, and journalists of all stripes - are available upon request on a need-to-know basis.

Alexander joined the OCC in October 2004, and his specialties encompass Counterparty Credit Risk, Structured Credit, and (theoretical) Derivative Asset Pricing.

Education

• PhD NYU Stern School of Business (1995 — 2000)
• International Management Degree (Emphasis on Finance) University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business (1994 — 1995)
• BBA/MBA (Grande Ecole) HEC School of Management (1991 — 1995)

Companies

• Lead Modeling Expert Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (2016)
• Bank Examiner-Quantitative Modeler Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (2007 — 2016)
• Senior Financial Economist Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (2004 — 2007)
• Visiting Professor of Finance MARTIN-LUTHER-UNIVERSITAET HALLE-WITTENBERG (2002 — 2004)
• Assistant Professor of Finance Zicklin School of Business (2000 — 2004)
• Visiting Professor of Finance Handelshochshule Leipzig (HHL) (2003 — 2003)
• Research assistant NYU Stern School of Business (1995 — 2000)